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Saturday, September 19, 2020

The China Climate Challenge — Scott Moore

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"What are the prospects for renewed U.S.-China cooperation on climate issues?" the author asks. Low. China is not going to give ...
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Hospitals Serving the Poor Close as Investors and Electeds Refuse to Rescue Them — Jordan Rau

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Founded 168 years ago as the city’s first hospital, Mercy survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 but is succumbing to modern economics, wh...

Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf — M. K. Bhadrakumar

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Historically, this is a situation analogous to the infamous  1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident  in the Vietnam war, which was a fake event that ...

Stephen Cohen Has Died. Remember His Urgent Warnings Against The New Cold War. — Caitlin Johnstone

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RIP Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton University  Steph...

The Roots of American Misery — James K. Galbraith

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Among recent inquiries into the sources of American discontent, one finds many simplistic diagnoses based on dubious cliches, but also deep...
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Towards an Ideal Form of Government (Version 4) — Frank Li

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Ideal government is a synonymous with utopia , meaning "nowhere." "Utopia" is close to "eutopia" meaning ...
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Yanis Varoufakis — Why we need a Progressive International that must plan for today and for beyond capitalism

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Our era will be remembered for the triumphant march of a Twin Authoritarianism in whose wake the vast majority of humanity experience unnec...
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Friday, September 18, 2020

Sputnik — Google Removes India's E-Commerce Payment Paytm App After Policy Violation

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Paytm is India’s most valuable startup and claims to have more than 50 million monthly active users. The app is one of the most used in the ...

Julian Assange trial: the mask of Empire has fallen — Pepe Escobar

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Here , Murray reports the exact moment when the mask of Empire fell, not with a bang, but a whimper: “The gloves were off on Tuesday as t...
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China And Russia to Join Forces in Space, Set up a New Satellite Internet Network — Drago Bosnic

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China and Russia have started the realization of a joint space program aiming to set up a network of low-orbit satellites for the purpose o...
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Cliodynamics is Not “Cyclical History” — Peter Turchin

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What my colleagues and I do is Cliodynamics , which is very different from typical cyclical views of history. “Cyclical history” suffers fr...
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Beyond the mainstream — David F. Ruccio

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In this post, I continue the draft of sections of my forthcoming book, “ Marxian Economics: An Introduction .” This, like the previous two ...

Review: 'The Deficit Myth' – two wrongs don't make a right — Adam Booth

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It should be stated from the outset that Kelton (like Keynes) is not a socialist, but a liberal. There is not one mention of socialism thro...
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Sputnik — Traditional Arms Suppliers 'to be Pressured' as India OKs National Security Clause in Defence FDI

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In August this year, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced an embargo on the import of 101 types of defence equipment worth $47 ...
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

Links 17 Sep 2020

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Summary of the view of Jon Kofas, retired professor of history, specializing in international political economy at Department of Sociolog...
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The Case for a Job Guarantee (Spanish) by Pavlina R. Tcherneva—Reviewed by Carlos García Hernández

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Book Review by Carlos García Hernández on the occasion of the publication of the Spanish version of the book by his publishing house Lola B...

Politics is an American industry — Steve Randy Waldman

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Good observations, as characteristic of SRW. I would add that many assume that economic models are general descriptions of reality, in...
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Why the US Can Keep Increasing its Debt and not Suffer Inflation (Part 2) — Stansfield Smith

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The US ruling class has dominated the planet since the end of World War II. Key elements of this control include its military superiority i...

From Poverty to Power — The Hidden Life of Theories of Change

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Why a paradigm may be more suitable than a plan in dealing with change in development economics. Some extracts to whet your appetites (my s...

Inflation Targeting: Keep It Simple — Brian Romanchuk

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The Powell press conference came and went, discussing the Fed's new approach to inflation targeting. My view is that not much has chang...

FT - Covid crisis has accelerated big trends in China’s favour

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Recent renminbi rally underscores shift in the economic balance from west to east China and much of east Asia have had a good crisis, relati...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Zero Hedge — US Retail Sales Disappoint, Online Spending Growth Hits A Wall As Government Handouts End

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Underscores the importance of targeted government spending, that is, direction of flow toward consumer spending (multiplier effect) rather...
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McKinsey — An experiment to inform universal basic income

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Finnish experiment. The final results from Finland’s experiment are now in, and the findings are intriguing: the basic income in Finlan...
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Confucius on Governance — Frank Li

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If China can be viewed as a computer, then the First Emperor was the (first generation of the) hardware, and Confucius has been the major s...
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Non-summit shows EU-China ties at new low — Alicia García-Herrero

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Nothing-burger.  The EU wants more than China is willing to give now that it is turning away from its former export-driven model of develo...
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Tale of two capitalisms — David F. Ruccio

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In this post, I continue the draft of sections of my forthcoming book, “ Marxian Economics: An Introduction .” This, like the previous post...

Bill Mitchell — How would Job Guarantee wages be set?

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But a few economics matters first pertaining to the Job Guarantee and the nonsensical arguments I have been seeing in the media about it be...

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the Power of the US Dollar in the World Economy (Part 1) — Stansfield Smith,

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Stansfield Smith mounts an interesting argument that the USD is the only truly sovereign currency in the world taking the present monetar...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Canadian Establishment: "Deficit Myths? Yes, Please!" — Brian Romanchuk

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The Canadian Establishment has launched a full-court press against lax fiscal policy of the Trudeau government. It would be only a slight e...
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LSE Symposium on Methods

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Some interesting articles on economic sociology, and economics and law. London School of Economics Symposium on Methods